The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-10
THE HAWAIIAN REVOLUTION.

THE HAWAIIAN REVOLUTION.
1t is decidedly interesting news from
Honolulu which appears in another
part of THE HERALD this morning
There has occurred a popular uprising
against the King, and the government
has been overthrown. The people
grown tired of corruption, dishonesty
and misgovernment, banded together
aud in the majesty of might and mum
bsrs. demanded that the evils be cured.
and those responsible for them be made
to retire and held 20 an account for
their misdeeds The King was given
the alternative of complying with the
demand, or abdicating. Naturally and
wisely enough he took The course
promising most to himself, at
once dismissed his Cabinet, and
selected a new Ministry from the
names presented to him by the reYolu-
tionists. His reply to the citizens
committee is one of the most humble,
obsequious documents ever penned by
a monarch. He yields willing obedi-
ence to all requests, and intimates that
he would as cheerfully and readily do
more if more were asked. Such a
spectacle of incompetence, cowardice
and corruption has seldom ever been
presented.
This event will not be displeasing to
Americans. On the contrary, it will be
7 ceived by them more in spirit of re-
joicing than regret. To Us it can mean
but one thing. There can be but one
outcome to this revolution, and thai |
will be the complete overthrow of the |
monarchy and the establishment
of a republic on the Sandwich
Islands. The republican idea which has
been of slow but steady and certain
growth in the little Pacific kingdom
has at last attained the position OF
mastery, and will soon assert itself in
the formation of a government founded
on the Democratic principle that all
men are born free and equal.
Poor Kalakaua is more to be pitied
NAANA1 SSASOACO 4OA L14S unhappy CO1uI- |
ton of things prevailing. He is weak
and Yaccillating, with little intellectual
ability, and grossly abusive and neglect
tul OF such as he possesses. He enjoys
none of the elements of a successful
ruler, and is no man to stand at the
head Of nation which has attained to
even moderate degree of intelligence
and enlightenment. The King has ever
been the tool and puppet of cunning,
ambitious and corrupt men. The
chief of these is one whose
name is not unfamiliar in Utah.
The principal conspirator and boss
rogue in the Hawaiian gov
ornamental affairs is Walter NJ. Gibson
who has for quarter of century been
almost supreme in the islands, and y,
and whose very presence there convicts
him as scoundrel and traitor. 1t may !
not be generally known that Gibson !,
was Mormon, and was sent to the Pa =
cific Islands as a missionary. He
abused his trust, and ingratisting him
self with the Hawaiians, has long
the government to his cor
rupt purposes. His downfall now il
small punishment for his many mis-
deeds.
Having learned their power and how
to use it effectively, the people of that =,
and oppressed land can
hardly be expected to stop now and be :
content with the single victory they
have achieved in the overthrow of the Z
ministry, and the reduction of the
King to mere fgure-hesd. They will
ask themselves what use they have for
even the form of s monarchy, and being Z
able to find none, will conclude that :
hey can best govern themselves. The I
news from the Islands during the next Q
lew weeks will be anxiously awaited, [
md eagerly read.
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